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Child Welfare Special Vehicle

Date: 1937
Description: Wisconsin State Board of Health's vehicle the "Child Welfare Special".
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Polio Shot Time

Date: 11 15 1955
Description: All seven siblings in the Marnell family lining up for their polio inoculations.
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Community Polio Vaccine

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Description: Tables are set up at a City Hall basement lobby as a venue for public access to the polio vaccine.
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Health for Victory Stage Set

Date: 09 17 1942
Description: Health for Victory stage, set up with posters, stove and refrigerator for Oscar Mayer at the Eastwood Theater. On the stage is a woman pointing to a poster...
Poster

The Health Of The Child Is The Power Of The Nation

Date: 1918
Description: A group of children walking up a grassy hill together, with text that reads: "The health of the child is the power of the nation," and "Children's Year." C...
Book or Pamphlet

Tuberculosis Must Go

Date: 05 25 1928
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to help prevent the spread of tuberculosis. Includes the text: ...
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Nurse with Native Americans

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Description: A nurse poses on steps with a Native American mother and four children.
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Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association Exhibit

Date: 1925
Description: Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association exhibit advertised in the storefront of a building in New London, Wisconsin. Two women are looking through the wind...
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Anti-Tuberculosis Traveling Exhibit

Date: 1935
Description: Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association traveling health exhibit. Long bus with Tuberculosis information displayed and a crowd gathered.
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Nurse and Two Pregnant Mothers

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Description: A nurse is talking to two pregnant mothers.
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Public Health Nursing Week

Date: 04 16 1947
Description: Public Health Nursing Week. Helen Guelzow of the Visiting Nurse Service making her daily physical check-up of two University of Wisconsin nursery school ch...
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Leaders of Dane County Cancer Fund Drive

Date: 04 23 1947
Description: Group portrait of leaders of the Dane County Cancer Fund Drive as they prepare to broadcast a radio appeal for support. Pictured left to right; Mrs. Jesse ...
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Dr. Harper Tribute

Date: 01 31 1948
Description: Shown at the Dr. Cornelius A. Harper recognition event, left to right, Dr. Carl N. Neupert, state health officer, and Mrs. Melba Neupert; and Dr. and Mrs. ...
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PTA Health Chairwomen

Date: 02 09 1948
Description: PTA health chairwomen hearing about plans for the mobile X-ray program from Beulah Dreyfus, a tuberculosis (TB) nurse with the City of Madison Health Depar...
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 19 1948
Description: Visiting nurse Maude Rydberg of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service, shows Mrs. William E. Johnson, the former Jane Weston, the proper way to use the cotton...
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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 11 1949
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen giving some advice about pre-natal problems to Mrs. Arnold Davis, a wife of a GI student at the University of Wisconsin.
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Mobile X-Ray Unit

Date: 05 02 1949
Description: Miss Jeanne Gibbons (left), a technician with the Madison Board of Health, explaining the workings of the mobile X-ray unit to members of the Lakewood Scho...
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Madison Come-Back Club Presidents

Date: 02 01 1950
Description: Five past-presidents of the Madison Come-Back Club at an annual dinner. Left to right: Myrtle Tiffany, Jay Rose, Lloyd Lock, Frida Kaech and Bjarne Romnes....
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Two Ho-Chunk Girls with Smallpox

Date: 1900
Description: Two unidentified young Ho-Chunk girls with smallpox are kneeling outside their lodge. Some of the Ho-Chunk suffering from smallpox were quarantined during ...

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